Lingoflyуложити новац
- уложити новацuložiti novacto invest money
“уложити новац” (uložiti novac) — to invest money in Serbian. Phrase, level B1. Uložiti is to put in, hence ulaganje, an investment. With uloga, a role in a movie, it only sounds alike. In a live sentence: “Одлучили су да уложе новац у нову опрему” (Odlučili su da ulože novac u novu opremu) — They decided to invest the money in new equipment. You can hear how it sounds right here.
In short
| Written in Serbian | уложити новац (uložiti novac) |
| Read in Latin letters | uložiti novac |
| Translation | to invest money |
| Part of speech | phrase |
| Level | B1 |
Why it looks that way
Uložiti is to put in, hence ulaganje, an investment. With uloga, a role in a movie, it only sounds alike.
A word with a story stays in memory longer than one learned as a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.
In a live sentence
A single word almost never appears alone in conversation. A sentence shows where it fits and what stands next to it.
How not to forget this word
Reading a word and remembering it are different jobs. A day later, little survives of a single reading — and that is not bad memory, that is how memory works.
- This has been tested on foreign words too. The difference shows up most when you test yourself a few days later rather than straight away.checked many timesKim & Webb, 2022, Language Learning 72(2) · 48 experiments, 3,411 participants, 98 comparisons.
- Recalling beats re-reading. Covering the translation and trying to remember it does more than reading it ten more times.checked many timesAdesope, Trevisan & Sundararajan, 2017, Review of Educational Research 87(3) · 188 experiments, 272 comparisons. g = 0.61; against plain re-reading 0.51, against passive review 0.93.
- An answer you worked out yourself sticks better than one handed to you.checked many timesBertsch et al., 2007, Memory & Cognition 35(2) · 86 studies, 445 comparisons, d = 0.40.
Frequently asked
How do you say “to invest money” in Serbian?
«уложити новац» (uložiti novac), read “uložiti novac”. In a live sentence: “Одлучили су да уложе новац у нову опрему” (Odlučili su da ulože novac u novu opremu) — They decided to invest the money in new equipment. You can hear how it sounds right on this page. Phrase, level B1; written with the characters у (u), л, о (o), ж, и (i), т, и (i), н, о (o), в, а (a), ц.
How is “уложити новац” (uložiti novac) written in Latin letters?
uložiti novac. This is a practical spelling — you need it to read aloud and be understood, not to meet an academic standard.
Why does this word look the way it does?
Uložiti is to put in, hence ulaganje, an investment. With uloga, a role in a movie, it only sounds alike. A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.
Can I hear how this sounds?
Yes, right on this page: click the word and it will play. The sound works on any phone, and nothing needs to be installed.